VOLUME 42, 2024 vol. 42 2024 Fifty Years of La Storia: Elsa Morante Beyond History ANNALI D’ITALIANISTICA (1983 — 2024) 1 Pulci and Boiardo (1983) 2 Guicciardini (1984) 3 Manzoni (1985) 4 Autobiography (1986) 5 D’Annunzio (1987) 6 Film and Literature (1988) 7 Women’s Voices in Italian Literature (1989) 8 Dante and Modern American Criticism (1990) 9 Italy 1991: The Modern and Postmodern (1991) 10 Images of Columbus and the New World (1992) 11 Goldoni (1993) 12 The Italian Epic and Its International Context (1994) 13 Women Mystic Writers (1995) 14 L’odeporica/Hodoeporics: On Travel Literature (1996) 15 Anthropology and Italian Literature (1997) 16 Italian Cultural Studies (1998) 17 New Landscapes in Contemporary Italian Cinema (1999) 18 Beginnings/Endings/Beginnings (2000) 19 Literature Criticism Ethics (2001) 20 Exile Literature (2002) 21 Hodoeporics Revisited/Ritorno all’odeporica (2003) 22 Francis Petrarch and the European Lyric Tradition (2004) 23 Literature and Science (2005) 24 Negotiating Italian Identities (2006) 25 Literature, Religion, and the Sacred (2007) 26 Humanisms, Posthumanisms, and Neohumanisms (2008) 27 A Century of Futurism (2009) 28 Capital City: Rome 1870–2010 (2010) 29 Italian Critical Theory (2011) 30 Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo (2012) 31 Boccaccio’s Decameron: Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages (2013) 32 From Otium and Occupatio to Work and Labor in Italian Culture (2014) 33 The Great War & the Modernist Imagination in Italy (2015) 34 Speaking Truth to Power from Medieval to Modern Italy (2016) 35 Violence Resistance Tolerance Sacrifce in Italy’s Literary & Cultural History (2017) 36 The New Italy and the Jews: From Massimo D’Azeglio to Primo Levi (2018) 37 Urban Space and the Body (2019) 38 Nation(s) & Translations (2020) 39 Unholy & Holy Violence in Dante’s Comedy (2021) 40 1922-2022: Pasolini e la libertà espressiva. Lingua, stile, potere (2022) 41 Il fascismo nella cultura italiana: 1945-2023 (2023) 42 Fifty Years of La Storia: Elsa Morante Beyond History (2024) ISSN: 0741—7527 Fifty Years of La Storia: Elsa Morante Beyond History EDITED BY FRANCO BALDASSO, URSULA FANNING, MARA JOSI, STEFANIA PORCELLI, KATRIN WEHLING-GIORGI WITH THE COLLABORATION OF THE CO-EDITORS & THE EDITORS OF ITALIAN BOOKSHELF ON THE COVER: Elsa Morante, wall art by UMAN (Manuela Merlo), Sapienza University, Rome, 2022 Photo by Martina Manfredi Selvaggi, Rome, 2022 Cover design Benedetta Baraldi